{"id":2001557,"date":"2025-09-06T09:23:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T09:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2001557"},"modified":"2025-09-06T09:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T09:23:18","slug":"josh-groban-on-l-a-barbra-streisand-and-his-sad-and-beautiful-hobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/josh-groban-on-l-a-barbra-streisand-and-his-sad-and-beautiful-hobby\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Groban on L.A., Barbra Streisand and his ‘sad and beautiful’ hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Josh Groban<\/a> views his pair of concerts at the Hollywood Bowl this weekend as a form of debt repayment.<\/p>\n

In 2009, when he was a boyish 28, the Bowl \u201cvery generously put me in their hall of fame before I\u2019d even performed there,\u201d says the singer and actor known for the soaring baritone he brings to a repertoire spanning pop, Broadway and classical music. Four years later, Groban played the Bowl\u2019s annual July Fourth Fireworks Spectacular \u2014 but only as part of a program long on patriotic orchestral tunes.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo these are kind of my first two proper solo shows\u201d at the iconic hillside amphitheater, he says. \u201cI\u2019m slowly working my way towards earning my induction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scheduled for Friday and Saturday nights, the dates will pair Groban, now 44, with the L.A. Phil nearly a quarter-century after the release of his self-titled 2001 debut, which he made under the tutelage of his mentor David Foster<\/a> (who also helped make global stars of Andrea Bocelli and Michael Bubl\u00e9<\/a>). In 2023 he played the title role in a Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim\u2019s \u201cSweeney Todd\u201d; this past May, he released a career retrospective called \u201cGems\u201d and launched a residency at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

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